To:J. V. STALIN

Written:Written on October 20,1921Published:First published in 1945 inLenin Miscellany XXXV.

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ComradeStalin:

Havea look at this, please, and if possible, inquire from
some of the old Party men, Armenians, perhaps. I knewLalayantsfrom the1890son as a Marxist and then a
Bolshevik. He is undoubtedly a loyal revolutionary,who must
be used despite our political
differences.[1]

[1]Thiswas written on Y. I. Vishnyak’s letter to Lenin of
September 10, 1921, about I. Kh. Lalayants.

Bypolitical differences Lenin meant the following passage in
Vishnyak’s letter: “After the liberation of Irkutsk, Comrade
Lalayants tried to understand what was taking place in Soviet
Russia at the time, and to analyse the R.C.P.’s tactics. He often used
to quote to me that part of your report on the agrarian question
at the Stockholm Congress, in which you pointed out that a social
revolution in the West was the only guarantee against any
restoration after the victory of the revolution in Russia. Our state
of isolation, the discrepancy between our political strength and
the economic foundation, and a number of other questions to
which he has not yet found an answer, prevent him from joining
the R.C.P.” (Central Party Archives of the Institute of
Marxism-Leninism of the C.P.S.U. Central Committee).

OnVishnyak’s letter is also J. V. Stalin’s reply: “I, too, favoursummoning Lalayants for work in Moscow” (Lenin Miscellany
XXXV, p. 278).

I.Kh.Lalayants was summoned to Moscow and worked at
the People’s Commissariat for Education.